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Institution: Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
Retrieved : 2017-11-21 Expired
Description :

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

You will have significant experience of managing all aspects of prestigious events from pre-planning and event delivery to the control and management of communications with relevant stakeholders.

Passionate about customer service and consistently delivering excellence, you will enjoy working on your own initiative, within a set of strategic objectives. You relish networking whilst being results orientated with impeccable standards around quality, service and presentation.

Prior experience of managing large and complex budgets to include both revenue and income streams upwards of £3m is essential along with flexibility, commitment and attention to detail.

About the Role 

A senior member of staff within Catering & Events, you will take lead responsibility for developing and implementing business improvement strategies across Catering & Events (C&E). You will be focused not only on growing the level of income (and contribution margin) across the business, you will also ensure that the C&E operations are at all times aligned to the student journey.

To be solely responsible for delivering a commercially balanced, sustainable business that ensures that we provide a consistently high-quality customer service, that supports and enables the provision of an outstanding student experience.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions like ‘Presenting with impact’ or ‘Preparing for progression & success’ you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, book to get a trim from our onsite hairdresser, your car valeted, or get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights and so much more.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

“A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Adrian McGillion, Deputy Director of Facilities Management at mcgillia@edgehill.ac.uk 

Closing Date: 04 Dec 2017
Category: Support





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